Asset Integrity Services
Managing asset integrity means more than completing inspections. It requires understanding degradation mechanisms, operating limits, process hazards, and the decisions that determine long-term equipment integrity. Cognascents Consulting Group provides integrated engineering services that help organizations improve safety and compliance, optimize inspection programs, and extend asset life.
Asset Integrity Services
Six services, one integrity program.
A strong asset integrity program connects inspection, corrosion management, mechanical integrity, compliance, and data. Our services help identify risks, close gaps, and optimize how you manage critical equipment throughout its lifecycle.
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Program-Level
Mechanical Integrity Program Assessment, Development, and OptimizationAssess your program against API standards, PSM requirements, and best practices. Identify gaps and improve performance. |
Inspection Strategy
Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) ImplementationPrioritize inspection by likelihood and consequence of failure using API 580 and 581, so resources go to the highest-risk equipment. |
Damage Management
Corrosion Control Documents (CCDs) & IOWsDefine how equipment degradation is managed by documenting damage mechanisms, corrosion monitoring requirements, and Integrity Operating Windows (IOWs). |
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Continued-Service Decisions
Fitness-For-Service (FFS)Leveraging API 579 engineering analysis to decide whether damaged equipment can keep running safely, and for how long. |
Asset Data Intelligence
Asset Integrity Data Visualization & IntelligenceIntegrate your siloed asset integrity data into a dashboard, analytics platform, or a cloud-based 3D model, providing a visual intelligence layer for faster and better integrity decisions. |
Building Capability
Training SolutionsHands-on training in RBI, IOWs, and mechanical integrity, including the RBI the Game workshop, to build your team’s integrity skills. |
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Why Cognascents
Why choose Cognascents for asset integrity management
Practitioner-Led Expertise
Work with the Experts Who Help Shape Industry Best Practices
Our team includes experienced integrity and corrosion engineers, who are active members of AMPP, IPEIA, and members of multiple API Recommended Practice Subcommittees, including API 580, 581, 510, 570, and 584. We’ve developed and implemented all aspects of asset integrity programs for major operators across upstream, midstream, refining, and chemical processing facilities, bringing practical, real-world experience to every assessment. |
AI-Accelerated Delivery
Faster Analysis, Same Engineering Depth
Our proprietary AI tools automate repetitive engineering tasks and significantly optimize the data-heavy parts of integrity work, from extracting design data to parsing inspection records to flagging anomalies in large equipment populations. The judgment stays with our engineers. The result is faster project delivery, greater consistency, and more time focused on engineering judgment, not manual data processing. |
Integrated Engineering Team
Process Safety and Asset Integrity Together
Cognascents combines process safety and asset integrity expertise in one integrated engineering team. By bringing together specialists in corrosion, materials, mechanical integrity, reliability, and process safety, we deliver solutions that result in safer, more reliable, and more defensible integrity programs. |
Standards & Codes We Work To
The industry standards and regulatory frameworks that govern asset integrity across the equipment life cycle.
Pressure Equipment & Piping
API 510API 570API 653ASME Section VIIIASME B31.3CSA B51API 579/ASME FFS-1
Pipeline Integrity
PHMSA 49 CFR Part 192PHMSA 49 CFR Part 195
Risk-Based Inspection & Damage Management
API RP 580/581API RP 571
Process Safety
OSHA PSM (29 CFR 1910.119)EPA RMP (40 CFR Part 68)
Food & Beverage / Refrigeration
IIAR 2IIAR 6ASME BPEASME B31.5
Canadian Requirements
CSA Z767CSA B51ABSA jurisdictionCSA B52
Process Safety and Asset Integrity, One Firm
Talk through your integrity program with an engineer who has built one.
Tell us where your equipment, your data, or your compliance keeps you up at night. We will tell you which of these services actually fits, with no sales process in between.
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Related Content
Asset integrity articles and case studies
Technical articles and case studies from the engineers who lead these engagements.
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Article | Asset Integrity
From an Auditor’s Perspective: Common Mechanical Integrity Gaps in PSM AuditsThe integrity findings that show up in audit after audit, and the fundamentals that prevent them. |
Case Study | Refining
Refinery-Wide Integrity Operating Window DevelopmentDamage mechanism reviews, corrosion control documents, and IOWs built from the ground up across multiple units. |
Case Study | Fertilizer
Future-Ready Mechanical Integrity Program: Harnessing Contextualization and 3D VisualizationA time-based MI program rebuilt around laser scanning, contextualized data, and targeted inspection. |
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